A glimpse of Krakow
Lecturer at Graphics department of State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia, Zackar Demirtshyan recently participated in Erasmus+ programme delivering one-week lecturing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow after J. Matejko, Poland…
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Jubilee marked at Albert and Tove Boyajian exhibition-hall
The Institute of Fine Arts established in Yerevan 75 years ago opened a good opportunity for Armenian youth to receive art education; throughout its existence it educated many generations, including numerous prominent artists who rendered great services to Armenian culture…
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SAFAA-75th anniversary: A jubilee exhibition at Artists’ Union of Armenia
In order to get higher education in fine arts, Armenian youth used to leave for Russian cities, mainly Moscow or Leningrad and Georgia, Tbilisi as well till 1945, but that continued until the decree to open Fine Arts Institute in Yerevan on 29th of June of the same year. It was not a coincidence that the role of arts education raised immediately after the World War II, the period when the society was on depression after so much loss and art development was one of the effective means to fight it…
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When Art is Life and Life is Art
Nicole Chevrier is a French artist who used to work at the University of Lyon, Saint Etienne. She has been a member in the committee of competition for professors, the President of Modern Art Association, has had a series of exhibitions and art projects…
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Exhibition “about diligence, sincerity and openness”
The exhibition hall of Albert and ToveBoyajian that has always been open forthe exhibitions of both students and lecturers and for serving to the idea of making them and their works popular to the public and contributing to the feedback from the public,due to the pandemic situation faced difficulties for some period in organizing exhibitions.Yesterday it hosted solo exhibition of 4th year student Tigran Grigoryanfrom Graphics department entitled “Inspiration”…
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Seminar conducted at SAFAA on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death
September 14th is marked as the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death; the greatest Italian thinker, poet and philosopher of the Italian Renaissance era. During his lifetime, in late medieval era, the language of poetry and literature was Italian that was available to limited layers of society, the educated and wealthy class. His most famous literary work “Divine Comedy” is one of the masterpieces of world literature…
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Launching September
So here is another day in a year different from all the others with mainly schoolchildren in uniforms and students seen at streets in the morning that evokes many memories. There is a beautiful tradition established at State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia related to the very day; meeting and greeting first-year students, newcomers, a tradition that was unfortunately broken the previous year by the pandemic situation…
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Another Session of SAFAA Scientific Council
On August 31 a regular session of Scientific Council of State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia was held. The following questions were on the agenda…
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Cultural Dialogue
Nearly a month ago a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia and Fine Arts Academy of Tehran in favor of further development of relations of both countries. Less than a month later the first project of cooperation came to life in the form of an interesting exhibition of the works of Iranian artists held at SAFAA hall. Overall 70 works were exhibited, the majority of them being portraits among which the ones of elderly people were impressive; outlining the wrinkles and lines traced by years…
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Monitoring of INCLUSION project
National Erasmus+ office in Armenia conducted a regular monitoring of Inclusion project, its impact and evolved activities at SAFAA upon the project termination. Sharing of best practice and dissemination were also touched upon…
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